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[flashback]

I can handle gendered words to some extent, like in Spanish you can more or less tell from the ending, unlike German where it's all one big mystery.

English used to have genders like German even.

But this bollocks of constructing sentences, using the right one of the seven forms of the right gender, ON THE FLY while you're talking, and if you get it wrong it completely changes the meaning of the sentence can GTFO. There's no need for that.

And that's only the beginning. The more you look at Polish grammar they more frightening it all gets until you peer into it and recoil in the same way you enjoy the pain of pressing a blister on your tongue onto a tooth.

Hungarian is another lunatic one. I was in Hungary for a short while, I heard Hungarian spoken most days for a couple of years, and I might understand about 4 words, all of which escape me at the moment. Sometimes Hungarian can sound like Finnish, apparently they're related.

Finnish is clearly great though, and Finns are the funniest population on the planet.

 

[Cormcolash]

RE: Polish grammar, I was once told how to say either "happy birthday" or "merry christmas" in Polish. wow. Kurva!

 

[ernesto]

I remember a guy I shared a house with in the late 80s scraping all the topping of a shit Dunne's "pizza", saying "I only like the bun"

I can still taste those little 7" yokes. Terrible.

I used to love those as a kid

 

[pete]

I still do. Not allowed to buy them

 

[therealjohnny]

Matt Gaetz claims he plans to hire Kyle Rittenhouse as a congressional intern

‘We may reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in helping the country in additional ways’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[therealjohnny]

I still do. Not allowed to buy them

We don't have the appropriate emoji

 

[Lili Marlene]

Matt Gaetz claims he plans to hire Kyle Rittenhouse as a congressional intern

‘We may reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in helping the country in additional ways’

www.independent.co.uk

Ahaha, picturing him walking around the Truman Show house with his TWO child helpers now. Just a normal guy doing normal things.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I see. I've obviously hit on something here.

I love the Poles, they're great craic. There's loads of them here, and generally we understand each other, in a way that I and the English just don't.
RE: Polish grammar, I was once told how to say either "happy birthday" or "merry christmas" in Polish. wow. Kurva!

That's what I mean though. We all like to think "The Irish built America! Henry Ford! JFK!", blah blah blah. There was just as many Poles who built America, they're not represented nearly as much.

I often wonder to what extent the irish influence on the states comes from our early transition from organized crime to politics.
That and the fact in the timeline of migrations a shitload of irish had arrived by the mid 1800s, whereas other nationalities arrived later.
The fact that a lot of the polish immigrants to the states in the mid-late 1800s were Jewish may have a bearing (in terms of what subsequent generations identify as)

 

[ernesto]

I often wonder to what extent the irish influence on the states comes from our early transition from organized crime to politics.
That and the fact in the timeline of migrations a shitload of irish had arrived by the mid 1800s, whereas other nationalities arrived later.
The fact that a lot of the polish immigrants to the states in the mid-late 1800s were Jewish may have a bearing (in terms of what subsequent generations identify as)

We used our whiteness and became the cops. Maybe we were better at English?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

We used our whiteness and became the cops. Maybe we were better at English?

your average pole is pretty white!
the english speaking was definitely an advantage, that an a relatively early arrival in numbers

 

[Unicron]

Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted.

Shit is, justifiably, going to kick off.

 

[ann post]

Pricks

 

[therealjohnny]

Failed state

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Alex Jones begs for money after being found guilty in Sandy Hook cases

‘It’s going to take a lot of money to fight this and a lot of money for the appeals’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[chris d]

Ignore this county and they might go away.

 

[therealjohnny]

This threw me a little when it appeared in my suggested videos. I subscribed to his channel a long time ago when I attempted (and failed) to learn the banjo.

It reflects a conversation on Thumped recently where someone suggested American country music is inherently racist., (something I still think is nonsense by the way). Someone else pointed out that many Americans don't make a distinction in genres and that country music is simply "music", which I feel is closer to the truth.

This surprises me because in my mind American folk music is traditionally left-leaning; think Pete Seger, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Leadbelly, etc. So to hear this "right-wing" take on the Kyle Rittenhouse case was a bit of a shock, to be honest. Reading through the comments, all positive, they believe that justice was upheld and the people who died deserved what they got. Gun rights and the right to self-defence were upheld, never mind alternative narratives.

It's like a real-life Bob Roberts.

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[nuke terrorist]

This threw me a little when it appeared in my suggested videos. I subscribed to his channel a long time ago when I attempted (and failed) to learn the banjo.

It reflects a conversation on Thumped recently where someone suggested American country music is inherently racist., (something I still think is nonsense by the way). Someone else pointed out that many Americans don't make a distinction in genres and that country music is simply "music", which I feel is closer to the truth.

This surprises me because in my mind American folk music is traditionally left-leaning; think Pete Seger, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Leadbelly, etc. So to hear this "right-wing" take on the Kyle Rittenhouse case was a bit of a shock, to be honest. Reading through the comments, all positive, they believe that justice was upheld and the people who died deserved what they got. Gun rights and the right to self-defence were upheld, never mind alternative narratives.

It's like a real-life Bob Roberts.

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I'll take your word for it.
like watching a video of Queen playing Sun City, no way am I looking at that.

 

[egg_]

like watching a video of Queen playing Sun City, no way am I looking at that.

Haha why? In case listening to it will convert you?

 

[ann post]

Haha why? In case listening to it will convert you?

I watched half and then clicked through to see that he's clearing about 6 grand a month on patreon. I clicked out then because i didn't want to add any more watch data to the robots.

 

[therealjohnny]

I watched half and then clicked through to see that he's clearing about 6 grand a month on patreon. I clicked out then because i didn't want to add any more watch data to the robots.

I wasn't sure about posting it at all because I don't want to drive up his clicks, but it seemed topical, and sure if we can't discuss this kind of thing here, then where?